A/N: I want to apologize for my lack of showing the Cullens heading to the rescue. This is simply because I can't think of much to do with that except the same old Edward blames himself and the others try to console him. I figure that's not too important though. Don't worry, they make a reappearance in this chapter. Also, we are coming to the stuff that I've been planning since the middle of Hurt Like This. It will be a little tedious because some of these next chapters will be repeated. One from Bella's P.O.V. and one from Edward's P.O.V. I think both sides are very important in a couple of the chapters. I hope it doesn't get too tedious and broing for you. Anyway, on with the story. THERE IS NO RAPE IN THIS CHAPTER. HOWEVER, THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF ABUSE. I just figured I'd let everyone know they could read it without worry.

BELLA

Jane and Felix did exactly what Aro had requested. However, they were anything but gentle. My skin was still red and nearly raw from the rough way they had scrubbed it. My entire body was throbbing with just formed bruises. My woman parts were worse off than the rest of my body. I was grateful for Aro's order of four hours rest before the others got to play. I wasn't sure how much more abuse my body could handle.

I was now laying on a very thin mattress in a very small room. There was a toilet right next to the mattress. It was so filthy that the smell coming from it was making me nauseous. The room was very cold and the clothes Jane and Felix put on me didn't provide much warmth.

The out fit consisted of a tank top that was held up by only one strap, it had rips and holes all over it. And a black skirt that barely covered anything, it too had rips and holes all over it. I could see the dried blood stains all over the outfit. The thought that I was wearing clothes that used to belong to one of their meals made me even more nauseous. I was barefoot and didn't even have any kind of blanket to cover up with.

I knew I should've been trying to get some sleep but I didn't want too. I was scared of what they'd do if one of them came in while I was asleep. Besides, I was so cold and uncomfortable, I wouldn't have been able to sleep even if I wanted to. Instead, I sat myself against a wall and pulled my knees to my chest. I wrapped my arms around my knees and rested my head on them.

All I could think about was what my family could possibly be doing at this moment. Were they on a plane flying to my rescue? Or did they simply say screw the human, let her figure it out for herself? As much as it hurt to think about, I hoped it was the latter. I didn't want them to risk their lives coming to save me. They already sacrificed enough for me. I didn't want them to have to give up course, the selfish part of me was praying Edward would come bursting in the door and take me out of this hell whole. Unfortunately, I knew that would take a miracle.

I wasn't sure how, but at some point, I ended up lying back down on the mattress. I was still curled up in my little ball for warmth. I let the tears slide down my face as I closed my eyes and imagined that I was in Edward's protective embrace.

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I screamed as it felt like something was slicing into my back. My scream was met with a chuckle as I turned around slowly. Jane was standing over me with a rawhide whip in her hand and a disgusting smirk on her face. Demetri and Felix were on either side of her with the same disgusting smirks. I gulped as Jane fished for the key to unlock the padlock where my leash was hooked. They had wanted to make sure I didn't escape.

"Wakey, wakey, human." Demtritaunting getting in my face. "It's our turn to have some fun."

Jane started yanking on the leash indicating that I should move. I didn't fight it because I was scared what she would do if I did.

"This room is way to small for any proper fun so we're taking you back to the playroom." Jane said as we made our way down the hallway.

When we finally reached the playroom, she dragged me inside and unhooked the leash from my collar. I eyed the metal table with aprehension. Demetri and Felix just laughed.

"Don't worry, angel." Felix stated stroking my face. "We've been told that only Aro and his brothers are allowed to play like that."

His hand slid from my cheek to my breast.

"It's a pity, though." Demetri injected. "You do have some fantastic potential."

He started to massage my other breast. Their hands wandered over my upper body for a few more minutes before Jane cleared her throat.

"As fun as it is to watch the human cringe." she stated. "I wouldn't want the two of you to get into any trouble. So knock it off. Besides, there are plenty of other ways for us to torture her with minimal effort on our part."

She got down on my level and turned her angelic smile on me. My heart started to race as I realized that she was going to use her gift on me. I had wondered on the plane why she didn't attempt to use it but I didn't mention it. It was something that I had really wanted to avoid having to deal with. I braced myself for the pain that was going to be coursing through my whole body any minute. Only the pain never came. Jane continued to stare at me. She looked like she was straining herself to make it work.

"That's interesting." she said after a good five minutes. "I'll have to inform Aro of this. I've never met anyone it hasn't worked on before. No matter." she smirked again. "There are plenty of other ways to make you scream."

She backhanded me and I went flying across the room. I landed hard on my left side but didn't make any noise to indicate how much pain I was in. I heard a small chuckle and suddenly she was right by my ear.

"Trying to be brave are we?" she taunted. "I can guaruntee you'll be screming by the time we're finished with you."

She kicked me in the stomach and knocked the wind out of me. I curled into a ball gaspng for air but didn't make any other sound. She chuckled again and kicked me in the back. The boys joined in soon after that. They took turns holding me down as the others hit, kicked and punched me wherever they could. They were all three very good at controlling their strength enough to make it hurt but not do any serious damage.

Throughout the entire beating, I didn't make a sound or shed a tear. I made the mistake of losing it with the brothers, I wasn't about to do it with these three. Especially not Jane. She was determined to make me suffer for what Roxy did to her brother. When the finally stopped, I curled into a ball gasping for breath. I still refused refused to cry.

After a minute of whispered conversation, I felt Jane grab a handful of my hair and my head up. Somehow, I managed to hold in the squeak of surprise.

"We aren't leaving this room until I hear you scream." she said in voice full of venom. "And I know just how to do it."

She shoved my head back to the floor. A couple seconds later, it, once again, felt like something was slicing into my back. I knew Jane had gone for the whip and she wasn't going to show any mercy this time. I managed to hold in my screams for the first few slashes but then it became to much. I began giving her everything she wanted. I screamed, cried, and begged for it to end. She and the boys just laughed as she continued to beat me.

She stopped, quite abruptly, a minute or two later. I was too weak to turn around but I heard the door open behind me.

"What is it Gianna?" Jane asked in exasperated disgust.

"Master Aro, wants you three to bring his pet out to the reception room." Gianni stated sounding apathetic about walking in on one of her kind being beaten by one of her bosses. "He would always like you three to join the guard that has assembled their."

"Did he say why?" Jane questioned.

"Master's pet's family has come to negotiate her freedom." Gianna replied. "He wants the entire guard there to make sure thing to get out of hand."

"Very well." Jane stated. "Run ahead and tell him we're on our way."

"Of course, Miss Jane."

The door opened and closed as she left. Jane was suddenly kneeling next to me again.

"Are you ready for this, bitch?" she asked as she reconnected my leash. "We're going to make quite the entrance. I want your boyfrined to get a good look at you."

With that she began pulling on the chain. I got up and started crawling with her as best I could. Pain shot across my back with every move I made. I was well aware that it was still bleeding. She simply laughed as I attempted to crawl down the hallway. Every once in awhile she tug on the chain a little harder indicating that I needed to move faster. We eveantually made it to the door leading to the recpetion area.

Jane didn't lie when she said that we were going to make an entrance. The door we entered from was right in front of everyone. As it opened and I was half dragged through, I noticed the walls were lined with every member of the guard. My family stood in the middle of the room looking angry and apprehensive as I crawled in. Jane lead me right across the front of the room. As we passed the family, I was mere inches from Edward. I could've reached out and touched. I held back, though, because I knew we'd both get into trouble. I heard him let out a growl as we passed.

When we finally made it to Aro, Jane handed my leash to him and she, Felix and Demetri took their places with the rest of the guard.

"We don't you stand up pet?" Aro said running his hands through my hair. "Let your family get a good look at you."

Slowly and painfully, I stood cringing with every every move I made. I stood there staring at my family as they stared at me. Carlisle and Esme were standing next to each other, fingers intertwined, both were looking horrified. Rose and Alice were standing next to each other looking like they were ready to kill. Jasper and Emmett were standing on either side of Edward. The each had a hold of his arms. They looked as though they were in charge of holding him back. Though, both looked like the wanted nothing more than to let Edward go at it. Roxy was behind Edward. She looked torn between worry and fear, unsure of what she should do.

After a minute or so of staring, Edward let out another growl and attempted to launch himself at Aro. Emmett and Jasper did a fantastic job of holding him back. Roxy ended up throwing her arms around his waist as extra reinforcement. Edward let out another low growl but calmed after a second or two. I shot a grateful look toward Jasper. He smiled at me sadly.

"You know Edward." Aro stated grabbing me by the hair. I flinched at the pain and prepared myself for more. "You really should learn to control your temper."

Aro used hi hold on my hair to make me face him then he forced his lips against mine. I gasped in surprised and he took the opportunity to shove his tongue into my mouth. He moved it around my impassive one for a few short seconds. I probably would've thrown up if I hadn't just had Caius's cock in my mouth that morning. I geard Edward let out another growl and a scuffle that indicted he was trying to get free again.

"Aro, can we please get to the point?" Carlisle asked once Aro released me. I could hear the disgust and anger in his voice. "I'm not sure how much longer my sons can hold Edward back. And I can assure you that, as angry as he is right now, he's liable to take out more than half your guard. I don't want to see that happen and I'm sure you don't either."

"Very well." Aro replied. "Sit pet."

I had found a sudden courage in knowing that my family was there. I decided if they were going to go through all this trouble to not give up on me. Then I was going to give up on myself. I was going to stand up to him from now until the day I died. I stood defiantly disobeying his order.

"Pet," he said and grabbed my hair, harder this time. "Just because we have guests, doesn't mean the rules have changed. Now, I said sit."

He kicked the back of my legs. My knees gave into the force and I crumpled. I let out a small whimper as my knee connected painfully with the floor. Edward let out another growl but didn't try to break free of his siblings. I looked at him willing him to come down and not worry about me. I wasn't sure how well it worked but I saw him take a few unecessary breaths and stared back at me.

"Now," Carlisle contined. "We know that you want somthing from us. Or else you wanted have gone through all of this trouble to get Bella and lure us here. So why don't you just tell us what it is that you want. I can assure you that we'd give up everything for Bella's freedom."

I knew that statement was true. However, I couldn't let them do it this time. They meant to much to me for me to allow any of them to be forced into a life that they didn't want. I couldn't let them do that. I would have to find a way to keep it from happening.

"I'm afraid it isn't that easy, Carlisle." Aro replied. "You see, you have a very unique family with four very unique powers. Powers that I would love to see on my guard. One's that I would do anything to get. I'd love to have all four of them. However, considering that I only have one person to trade, I will except one of the four in exchange."

"You want me to barter one of my children for another." Carlisle questioned.

"Don't do it, Carlisle!" I yelled.

"Silence pet!" Aro yelled and kicked me in the stomach.

I leaned forward gasping to get my breath back. I heard Edward struggling and looked up to see the other three holding on to him with all their might.

"I do it!" Edward said. "I'll join you. Just stop hurting her!"

"No, Edward you can't!" I pleaded.

"I said shut up!" Aro yelled and backhanded me.

I flew across the room and hit the floor hard. Edward broke free this time. I watched in horror as he hit the floor half way through his lunge at Aro. His face was contorted in pain but he didn't make a sound. I looked up to see Jane smiling only a few feet away from him.

"No! Edward! Leave him alone!" I cried trying to call to him.

Aro yanked back on the chain hard. The manacle pushed against my throat and gagged me for a moment. The next thing I knew, I was laying on my back, the open wounds seeing from making contact with the stone floor.

By the time I had gotten back up, Jane had removed her power from Edward and Alice was by his side. They were staring at each other as if they were having one of their silent conversations.

"No, Alice." he replied outloud. "This is my fault and I'm going to do it."

"No Edward." she pleaded. "It's mine, I should've just let you deal with her the way you wanted to."

"Don't go there, Alice." Edward stated.

"Aro," Carlise stated cutting off their argument. "Could we please have some time to discuss this as a family?"

"Of course," Aro replied. "I'll give you twenty four hours. If you have not made a decision by then, I will be keeping my pet for as long as I like."

"Fine." Carlisle stated with disgust. "We'll get a hotel then and discuss it tonight. I would like to request, though, that you not harm Bella until we have made a decision."

"Unfortunately, Carlisle, I can't promise you that." Aro answered. "She hasn't be very well behaved this evening and she really needs to be punished."

"You keep your hands off of her you son of a-" Edward yelled but Alice clamped a hand over his mouth. Aro just chuckled.

Emmett and Jasper had resumed their hold on Edward and were pulling him back. Carlisle looked at the floor defeated. He didn't know what else to say to keep Aro from hurting me.

"Fine." he stated. "We'll be back at ten tomorrow night then."

"Jane will be waiting for you outside." Aro replied.

After one last look at me, Carlisle lead Esme back toward the tunnel that lead to the surface. Rose and Roxy had their arms around each other and from the looks of it the were crying vampire style.

"Bella, it's going to be okay!" Edward yelled as Emmett, Jasper, and Alice dragged him toward the tunnel. "I'll come back for you and make you safe! I love you! I won't let him hurt you anymore!"

His cries slowlt faded into the dark tunnel as I stared after him. I loved him for what I knew he was going to do. Yet, I wished they'd all just leave me and move on with the lives. They'd be a lot better off without me.

"Jane," Aro's voice brought me out of my pity party. "Take her back to the playroom. She needs a little reminder of who her masters are."

A/N: What do you think? This chapter is going to be redone is Edward's P.O.V. I know you guys are probably confused about a lot of Edward's reactions. All will be explained next chapter. I promise. Anyone got any guesses who it's going to be? Alice, Jasper, Edward, or Roxy? Please review. I can't wait to hear your thoughts.